We need an agent to manage Linux/Unix machines; in this recipe, we will install it manually on a Linux machine.
In case of a Linux installer, make sure that it is copied from the same VCM server where the managed machine will get managed, as VCM certificates are embedded in the installer. If we use an installer from another VCM server and then try to manage it from a different server, it will fail.
Copy the correct installer from the VCM server to the Linux server.
Install the prerequisites and verify that the glibc.i686
, net-tools
, and redhat-lsb-core
packages have been installed on the target machine.
Open port 26542
if a firewall is enabled.
We need the root password of the machine where the agent will be installed.
The agent is available at X: \Program Files (x86)\VMware\VCM\Installer\Packages\CMAgent.5.8.2.linux
on the VCM Collector server. We don't need to copy the certificate the way we did in Windows as the certificate is built into the...